Dogs Don't Lie (Pru Marlowe Pet Noir, 1)
Pru Marlowe isn't your ordinary animal psychic. A tough girl on the run from her own gift, Pru left the big city to return to her  picturesque Berkshires hometown looking for a little peace. Too bad  that her training as an animal behaviorist got her mixed up with Lily, a rescue dog, and Charles, her person. Now Charles is dead, and  Lily looks good for it. After all, Lily is a pitbull, a fighting-ring  dropout, and way too traumatized to give Pru a clear picture of what  she has witnessed. But Pru knows something about bad girls trying to clean up, and, with a sense of justice strong enough to overcome her dislike of human society, she takes the case. Listening to the animals, Pru picks up clues--and learns there are secrets in the pretty little town that make murder look simple. Unable to tell anybody about her psychic abilities, uncertain at times about her own sanity, Pru comes to realize that if she clears Lily, she’ll likely  become the prime suspect--or the next victim. While the only creature she can totally trust is her crotchety tabby Wallis, Pru’s got to uncover the real killer--and find a way to live with her gift--before the real beasts in the town savage her and those she  has come to love. The first in the Pru Marlowe “pet noir†series.